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Description: Contributions and independent expenditures of $1,000 or more from groups and organizations opposing Prop 56 such as Philip Morris, RJ Reynolds and their affiliates such as ITG Brands and John Middleton co.
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Subject: Prop 56 , tobacco tax, ballot measure, finance, campaign funding
Creator: California Secretary of State
Collector: UCSF Industry Documents Library
Description: Blog post about how the tobacco companies have battled against the Proposition 56 ballot initiative, pouring more than $71 million to date into a campaign funding radio and TV ads that have been decried as “supremely sleazy” by the editorial board of the Mercury News, and pilloried by health advocates, the Politifact fact-checking organization and other newspapers including the Los Angeles Times. The opposition campaign, titled “No on 56: Stop the Special Interest Tax Grab,” has so far been 100 percent funded by tobacco companies, with just two companies, Philip Morris (via their affiliate, Altria) and RJ Reynolds donating n excess of $50 million. While Prop. 56 had significant support in polls taken in September, proponents worry that support is slipping under the barrage of cigarette company ads.
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Subject: Prop 56 , tobacco tax, ballot measure, campaign finance
Collector: UCSF Industry Documents Library
Description: Tom Steyer, the California-based hedge fund manager known for spending huge sums of money to support progressive causes, announced this week his plan to spend $1 million backing a proposed ballot initiative that would raise California’s tobacco tax by $2. The ballot initiative would also extend tobacco taxes to electronic cigarettes
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Subject: ecigarette, tobacco tax, Prop 56 , ballot measure, Steyer, Tom
Creator: Watchdog.org
Collector: UCSF Industry Documents Library
Description: Fox & Hounds article on how the tax on tobacco would affect the state of California including increased smuggling and the risk of a shortfall in the MSA tobacco company payments due to reduced demand for legal cigarettes
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Subject: Prop 56 , tobacco tax, ballot measure, smuggling, MSA payments, general fund, healthcare, policy
Description: Opponents of Proposition 56, California’s proposed tobacco tax increase, have raised more than $66 million to defeat the November ballot measure. Nearly all of that money has come from the tobacco industry and much of it has been spent on television ads criticizing the initiative.
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Subject: Prop 56 , tobacco tax, campaign finance, ballot measure
Creator: Nichols, Chris
Collector: UCSF Industry Documents Library
Description: Proposition 56 Ballot Measure Total Contributions and opposition contributions
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Subject: Prop 56 , tobacco tax, ballot measure, contributions, campaign finance
Creator: California Secretary of State
Collector: UCSF Industry Documents Library
Description: Proposition 56, the California Healthcare, Research and Prevention Tobacco Tax Act of 2016, will increase California’s cigarette tax by $2 per pack, with an equivalent increase on products containing nicotine derived from tobacco, including e-cigarettes. Paid for by Yes on 56-Save Lives California, a coalition of Doctors, Dentists, Health Plans, Labor, Hospitals and Non-profit Health Advocate Organizations. Major funding by California Hospitals Committee on Issues, (CHCI) Sponsored by California Association of Hospitals and Health Systems (CAHHS) and California State Council of Service Employees Issues Committee.
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Subject: tobacco tax, Prop 56 , ballot measure, tobacco related disease, healthcare
Creator: Save Lives California
Collector: UCSF Industry Documents Library
Description: The California Tobacco Tax Initiative (#15-0029 and #15-0030) was an initiated state statute that initially did not make the California ballot for November 8, 2016. Two versions of the initiative were approved for circulation and both measures failed to reach the ballot in March 2016. But as of May, 2016, the initiative was alive as a combined initiated constitutional amendment and state statute. Page lists supporters and opposition as well as full text of the initiative and campaign contributions.
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Subject: Prop 56 , tobacco tax, ballot measure, tobacco related healthcare costs
Creator: Ballotpedia
Collector: UCSF Industry Documents Library
Description: Twitter account for the No on Proposition 56 campaign.
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Subject: tobacco tax, Prop 56 , ballot measure, social media
Creator: No on Proposition 56
Collector: UCSF Industry Documents Library
Description: Video produced by the No on Proposition 56 campaign regarding the revenue that would be generated and then misdirected by the proposition
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Subject: Prop 56 , social media, video;, ballot measure;, tobacco tax, state revenue
Creator: No on Prop 56
Collector: UCSF Industry Documents Library
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